We're All Mad Here:

Gwen began wandering the eerie forest. It seemed to go on forever! The signs on the road only got her more lost. She even wished that the cat would appear to keep her company.

"I wish kitty Cody would appear and Tell me WHERE THE HELL SHOULD I GO!?" she yelled the last part while looking around on the trees to see if JC was there.

Gwen journeyed further and further into the forest trying to find anything that made sense!

"Maybe if I was nice to Jack, he would've helped me get home." Gwen thought as she sat on a stump with her head buried in her hands. Then it hit her! "JC said something about realizing a mistake! I wasn't nice to him and I didn't heed his warning so maybe that's my mistake!" Gwen thought when she suddenly understood what the Cheshire Cat said.

"OH CHESS!" Gwen called out to the strange cat boy. Then all of a sudden two clawed paws/hands formed on her eyes ,then accompanying it the rest of the body, forming behind her.

"Reveal my name…" the figure whispered sinisterly in her ear ,scaring her a little.

"STUPID CAT!" Gwen yelled as she pulled his hands off her which was a big mistake! When Gwen tugged his hands she pulled him closer to her ,making them come face to face.

Jack smiled like he usually does ,but he seemed unaffected with whole situation unlike Gwen who blushed at the encounter with the Cheshire cat.

"You can't keep your hands off me ,can ya?" Cheshire Cat joked mischievously.

"NO! …" Gwen yelled pushing the cat away from her while still blushing like crazy! "I mean…I …I learned my lesson and the mistake that I made!" Gwen said the last part a little proud of herself.

"Okay..Let's hear it…" JC said with a bored tone as he floated around waiting for the goth to answer.

"I learned that I treated you badly and I should've heeded your warnings….. So how 'bout returning me home!?" the goth girl perked up in the last sentence.

Cheshire Cody frowned at her arrogance.

"You know cockiness, arrogance and ignorance are punished here, miss." The cat said seriously. "Like I told you. Everyone and everything that was kind and gentle is the opposite in the world. It's torturous, murderous, and agonizing! And flattery will get you nowhere, especially in this world….. We're All Mad Here ." he said the last part sinisterly/

Gwen began to become even more frightened from the cat's warnings.

"What kind of a place is this!?" Gwen said, frustrated! "Nothing here makes sense!"

"That's Wonderland for ya." Jack said with no care at the girl's words.

Gwen shot her head back at the Cheshire cat.

"What did you say!?" she yelled. "You said this place was Horrorland not Wonderland!"

Cheshire cat looked at her uncaringly once more. "Yeah this world never lived up to its name so they had to change it to Horrorland since there is terror here, possibly even more than Auschwitz."

"WOW! If the horrors here are more frightening than Auschwitz I should definitely be careful." Gwen thought. She was actually pretty much frightened. She was in an insane place and no way out of it except by talking to fearsome grinning cat with teeth bigger than his own head, who only speaks in riddles.

"Please Jack, I want to get out of here!" Gwen said sadly while looking at Jack.

"It all depends on where you want to go?" Jack said while standing on his hands/paws and using his legs to shrug.

"It doesn't really matter. I want to…" Gwen said stuttering.

"Then it doesn't really matter where you go or which way you take." He said as he disappeared.

"Please Jack make more sense." She said somewhat politely. "I just want to get out of these creepy woods."

"OH! Then why didn't you say so before!?" he said as he appeared suddenly next to her grinning widely then disappearing again. "But the only way out is through the Hatter's house." He then appeared on a purplish path between two yellow trees. One of the tree had a sign written on it "Mad Hatter".

"Ok I'll go see him. Thank you." Gwen said as she to walk away on for Jack to stop her.

"Here's a riddle for you. If the Mad Hatter invites you to partake, Don't eat any cake." Cheshire Cat said, while Gwen couldn't understand his warning so she just passed him and left.

The Cheshire Cat stood there ,grinning once again and his cat eyes turn to slits.

"So Gwen, the gory game of madness begins. Once you pass Tulgey Woods , you must redeem from your sins." He spoke a sinister riddle that was carried out by the wind.

Gwen was walking in the woods until she heard Jack once again.

"OH! Scare the hell out of Dormy! It's always such fun, for me!" the cat boy's giggly voice echoes in the wind while Gwen just ignored it walked further in the Tulgey woods.

The pale goth girl finally reached the end of the Dark, eerie forest and smelled something in the air.

Sniff. Sniff.

Gwen smelled the aroma of tea in the air and heard someone talking nearby and approached the source of the voice.

She saw a white fence with door opened. She entered and the voice grew louder as she went inside to find herself in a garden. The garden was decorated with many sculptures and topiaries! Odd, they were all related to mice, rabbits and tea sets.

Gwen then saw a really long dining table in the middle of the garden with many seats ,and a variety of cakes and tea sets. She saw three men in the other side of the table, talking.

The man making the conversation was wearing a top hat while pouring more tea in the teacups of his guests. The second man seemed really nervous, and why wouldn't he be? He was strapped to a gurney and wore a mask and a straitjacket that made him look like Hannibal Lecter! The weirdest thing about that man wasn't the mask or the straitjacket ,but it was the fact that he had rabbit ears and a fluffy tail! He even had mechanical legs with springs! He also has a monocle in his left eye that looked like it was attached to the mask.

The third man seemed really bored as he was yawning every five seconds, but it was hard to tell because his eyes were wide open with speculums in each one. The speculums were held by a device on his head that resembled a metal head band. He also had a windup key in the back , what looked like mechanical arms, and small buck teeth sticking out of his mouth. The man actually looked like a mouse with the round ears and the slick tail.

"These guys look like they're going to A Clockwork Orange convention or something." Gwen thought. "They look a lot like Alejandro, Harold and Noah!" she was right, those three do resemble the Latino and the two geeks, except the one that resembles Alejandro seemed joyful instead of calm and cool. The Harold look alike was too nervous to be Harold, Harold was barely nervous in anything. The cyborg Noah clone was actually similar to Noah in personality except he wasn't as sarcastic as the real Noah.

The Alejandro look alike poured more tea in the cups and began speaking about the History of Tea leaves, which bored his guests even more as they drank their tea waiting for him to shut his mouth.

The Rabbit Harold was drinking his tea through a straw ,since he's restrained and Mouse Noah was burying his face in his teacup as if trying burn himself from the hot, steaming beverage.

Gwen approached cautiously and stood next to the Mouse Noah ,who then looked at her.

"Get out of here while you still can!" he whispered vigorously.

"*GASP* Dormy don't be rude to our guest!" the hat wearing man said as he got up and made his way towards Gwen.

"Hello young Lady. I'm Markus Hatter." The man said as he tipped his hat like a gentleman. "Would you like to join us for tea? We're just about to have a tea party."

"That's all you ever have here ya crazy freak." Dormy mumbled under his breath till he got a violent shock, making him jolt.

The electrocuted mouse caused Gwen to jump out of fright. Gwen would've left the place ,but she was famished and she doesn't have anywhere to go.

"Well I think I could stay for a while and I am a bit hungry." She said as she sat between to Markus and the Harold look alike.

Suddenly a metallic teapot grew four legs and ran across the table and next to Gwen's teacup ,then began pouring steaming tea in her cup.

Gwen was speechless at what she saw. A teapot just ran across the table and gave her tea is just too unbelievable.

"How rude of me! Let me introduce my other guests… This is Robert March." He said pointing at the brown rabbit that looked like Harold. "And this is Dorian Mouse." Pointing at the sleepy mouse that resembled Noah.

"My friends call me Dormy." The drowsy mouse said with his head on the table, yawning.

"What's your name ,miss?" the Mad Hatter said politely putting two lumps of sugar in her tea.

Gwen was surprised to see that Al was actually polite. The real one only tried to charm the others to get what he wants.

"My name is Gwen." She said and lifted her teacup to drink it. "Jack told me to come and see you."

The Hatter's eyes widened and so are Robert's.

"OH! Why didn't you say so? Any friend of Jack's is a friend of mine." he said ,grabbing a plate that had a delicious looking chocolate cake in it. Hatter cut a piece out of it and handed the slice to Gwen.

"Thanks. It looks good." Gwen said. She was right! The cake looked simply scrumptious.

The Goth Girl took her fork and began to eat the yummy cake.

Gwen finished the cake fast. It was truly delicious! That Gwen licked her lips and her mouth began salivating.

"Wow! That was really good!" Gwen complimented. "What's this cake called?"

"It's called a Chocolate Black Out Cake." Mad Hatter responded, while smirking for some reason.

"Why is it called that?" Gwen asked until… She clutched her aching head and her vision became blurry. She looked at the Hatter who's smiling evilly.

"You…" Gwen managed to talk ,but fell on the ground, losing consciousness.

A Few Hours Later:

"UGH! Ehmmm!" Gwen groaned as she woke up. She tried to get up but she couldn't…

The goth girl woke up in restraints! She was strapped to a gurney ,that looked more like a dissection table!

The dark girl looked around to see she was in what looked like an Insane Asylum's Laboratory! The Lab was enough to scare her, it had blood stains on the tiled floor, there were a lot of rusty scalpels, knives and other sharp objects, the place was extremely cold, and she wasn't the only one there.

The Hare and Dormouse were there too! Like her, they were strapped to gurneys ,but the scariest part was most of their exposed bodies were mechanical!

Sure she saw their mechanical bodies ,but she didn't think that they were like this! Robert's gastrointestinal tract was gutted open with some gears attached to his thighs and pelvis. He had bolts on each of his ears that looked like earrings. His left eye was removed and was replaced with a golden pocket watch. He also had a robotic, automaton arm which was disassembled on a different table. Dormy's speculums were removed and so was his weird metallic head band, but he was really exhausted that he was prone to sleep, whenever he tries to sleep he gets a violent shock to keep him awake. Like Robert he has some bolts stuck to his head, probably to keep the metal head band in place. His arms were still automaton parts, but like Robert's arm they were disassembled. He also has gears inside his chest and his heart was showing with wires attached to his veins!

Gwen was very apprehensive! She was perspiring and hyperventilating! Her heart was beating like crazy, but then breathed deeply and summoned up the courage to talk to the other victims.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"We're in the Hatter's Lab." Robert answered queasily.

"Why are we here!? And why are you mostly made out of metal!?" Gwen asked fearfully looking at the tortured animals.

"We are experiments of the Mad Hatters insane experiments… He used to be such a tea party loving man until the malevolent Queen assumed the throne of the Heart Kingdom. She gave him a new arm as gift for helping her conquer the kingdom, but the arm made Hatter very curious and ambitious, that he began making new and useless machinery which included organic life forms." Robert explained nervously. "His experiment was to make a mechanical army so that he can conquer a country of his own. So he always experiments on us, but because he has nothing more to experiment on he tries to bring in new ones by luring them with tea."

The door slammed open to reveal Markus wearing latex gloves ,a surgical mask and bringing new equipment in a table cart. The equipment looked more like terrifying torture devices! Some were new, and some were really old like in they were from the medieval ages. Gwen knew some of them since she has an interest for morbid things, which just made her more terrified!

He turned to his "friends" and said… "You two are lucky. You get the day off, but I need to oil your robotic parts." He smirked and looked at Gwen, evilly.

Gwen was almost in tears as she saw him searching for a specific device from all the other devices he brought.